Comparative Religion category: 1410 books

Something Old, Something New: Contemporary Entanglements of Religion and Secularity offers a fresh perspective on debates surrounding religious and secular thinking. In each chapter, Wayne Glausser focuses on a topic of contemporary relevance in which something old (the sacrament of extreme unction,...

Long a fascinating but problematic category of religious studies, "syncretism" is an elastic term that describes a wide range of practices characterized by the mixing or overlap of traditions. Syncretism in Religion offers the student a broad selection of essays, both classical contributions to the...

For the first time in 400 years a number of leading common law nations have, fairly simultaneously, embarked on charity law reform leading to an encoding of key definitional matters in charity legislation. This book provides an analysis of international case law developments on the ever growing range...

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters...

This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion.  It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. Einleitung Diese Arbeit soll das Verhältnis der Gewalt zum Islam untersuchen. Dabei wird die Aufmerksamkeit besonders auf...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 11 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um das Jahr 320 nach Christi Geburt begann sich in Nordamerika eine einzigartige Kultur zu...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Leipzig (Religionswissenschaft), 25 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Neben vielen anderen Denkern versuchte auch der Psychoanalytiker, Humanist und Gesellschaftskritiker...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Seminar für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft), 26 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...] Die vorliegende Arbeit soll...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (evangelische Religion ), Veranstaltung: Der Islamische Blick auf andere Religionen , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der 20. Jahrestag der Deutschen Einheit wurde...

Read Andrew Park's post on the Penguin Blog. At age thirty-five, Andrew Park hit a parenting snag. Teaching his children about ethics, good manners, and how to shoot a free throw posed no problem. When they started asking about religion, he came up empty-handed. Raised in a faith- free family...

As the host of one of National Public Radios most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing lifes most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive...

For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world’s religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smith’s writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic career,...

William Paden's classic exploration in religious studies, with a new introduction In the current climate, Interpreting the Sacred provides a fresh, thorough way to consider and compare various religious belief systems. Paden puts forth the idea that our understanding of religion influences...